It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever…

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil…

— Frances Mayes

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

— Darren Gough

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series…

— Aldous Huxley

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

— Oscar Wilde

“He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here…

— Oscar Wilde

When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the…

— Alex Timbers

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of…

— Jon Gordon

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up…

— Brian Jacques

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

— John Cleese

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New…

— Jon Gordon

“Forgiveness is a lot like basil, it's so strong that you only need a little to change the whole recipe.”

— Will E. Wrightmoor

“He once called her his basil plant; and when she asked for an explanation, said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully…

— George Eliot

“Basil flushed and made a poor pass. He had been called by a nickname. It was a poor makeshift, but it was something more…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I…

— Cate Blanchett